Women''s Alliance for Peace and Human Rights in
Afghanistan (WAPHA), 2 September 1998. The Taliban's
detention, torture, and killing of the ethnic groups in
northern Afghanistan. The Hazara are singled out by the
Taliban and men, women, and children are either placed in
camps, killed, imprisoned, or they have disappeared.

By Maqsood Ghaz, 7 April 2000. Interview by prison
worker provides information regarding the situation at the
prison. A lot of prisoners were arrested from streets
during the first Taliban's attack on the northern
regions and were transferred to the Pol-e-Charkhi
Prison. After almost three years they still face an
unknown fate, and many of them have become mentally and
physically ill.

By Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 18
June 2000. During the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in
the 1980s and the bloody internal conflict that followed,
more than 6 million refugees fled to Pakistan and
Iran. Many have since returned home. But at least 2.6
million remain in the two countries, making them one of
the largest long-term refugee populations in the
world.

Newsweek Web Exclusive, 5 January 2002. Thousands of
Afghan children will not survive The winter's death
toll. After more than 20 years of war and three years of
drought, they are malnourished and at risk from land mines
and unexploded bombs. Many have spent their entire lives
in refugee camps; the infant mortality rate is one of the
highest in the world.